Nayib Bukele met with Donald Trump Jr after attending the presidential inauguration in El Salvador

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, held a private meeting with the first-born son and namesake of former United States President Donald Trump, who participated in the presidential inauguration in San Salvador on Saturday.

Bukele took office for a second consecutive term. This Sunday afternoon he shared a video on X where he is seen shaking hands with Donald Trump Jr and his companions while they were having a conversation in English.

The topics that both discussed are unknown.

The government of President Bukele, in his first term, was close to the administration of former President Trump; in addition, the Salvadoran president maintained a close relationship with the former US ambassador to Salvadoran territory Ronald Johnson.

However, El Salvador’s relationship with the United States changed with the arrival of President Joe Biden and for a moment that relationship was tense due to some decisions made by Bukele, such as support for the dismissal of Supreme Court justices, which were criticized. by the Biden administration.

Bukele also shared this Sunday on the same social network a video in which he is seen with the company of the Cuban-American María Elvira Salazar, a Republican congresswoman from the United States, who also participated in the inauguration and who praised him and expressed her support. .

The president was inaugurated on Saturday for a second consecutive term until 2029, which occurs despite the fact that the Constitution prohibits re-election.

Before Bukele, the dictator and military man Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, who governed between 1931 and 1944, had done so.

Nayib Bukele thus becomes the first president of El Salvador’s democratic era to be elected for a second consecutive term, after decades of military dictatorship and a 12-year civil war (1980-1992).

Various political and social actors in El Salvador stated on Saturday that they do not recognize the legality or legitimacy of the second term because it is contrary to the Magna Carta.

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